Rich Pellegrin

Rich Pellegrin: Topography (featuring Neil Welch)

by Dan McClenaghan
October 8, 2024

Whidbey Island, nestled in the nook of Puget Sound, must be an inspiring place. Pianist Rich Pellegrin finds it so. He has recorded two solo works here, Solitude (OA2 Records, 2021), (review here) and Passage (OA2 Records, 2022), (review here). Both of these works--recorded in the same session--have a feeling of serenity, of an escape from the mind-numbing necessities of modern life; they elicit a cool, pastoral frame of mind, inspired by the isolation, climate, topography, and the verdant flora ...